[Completed] Network region locked for only a month.. - XDA Assist

Hi guys,
Im andrew fro the philippines. So i got this samsung grand prime sm g531f from saudi arabia and it was region locked and i cant fix it on my own. And so i had it rooted and the region lock removed. That was more than a month ago. I actually dont have any idea how the repairman fix my phone. I just know that he installed an app called SuperSU.
The problem came yesterday when i turned my phone on. To my surprise the net work is locked again. It is again asking for PIN/PUK and saying that the sim is not valid. I tried to fix it, looking for tips from the internet like
- removing the sim card and putting it back
- checking if my phone is still rooted and according to root checker it still is
- using the root explorer and hex editor
- using the region lock away but it didnt work coz it is asking for a csc data
- accessing the recovery mode (i dont actually know what to do while in recovery mode)
I dont know what to do next bec. According to some internet posts region unlocking is permanent then how come my phone got locked again. I suspected thati may have done some things that led to this. These are:
- my phone memory is getting consumed and so i was forced to transfer a lot files from the phone to the sd card memory the night before.
- i charged my phone thru the usb port of my computer for about an hour or two.
Please help me remove the region lock again. The repair shop where i had it fixed is 7 hour drive from where i live. If possible i wanted to fix this by myself. Thank you guys. I hope you could help me.

Andrew1211 said:
Hi guys,
Im andrew fro the philippines. So i got this samsung grand prime sm g531f from saudi arabia and it was region locked and i cant fix it on my own. And so i had it rooted and the region lock removed. That was more than a month ago. I actually dont have any idea how the repairman fix my phone. I just know that he installed an app called SuperSU.
The problem came yesterday when i turned my phone on. To my surprise the net work is locked again. It is again asking for PIN/PUK and saying that the sim is not valid. I tried to fix it, looking for tips from the internet like
- removing the sim card and putting it back
- checking if my phone is still rooted and according to root checker it still is
- using the root explorer and hex editor
- using the region lock away but it didnt work coz it is asking for a csc data
- accessing the recovery mode (i dont actually know what to do while in recovery mode)
I dont know what to do next bec. According to some internet posts region unlocking is permanent then how come my phone got locked again. I suspected thati may have done some things that led to this. These are:
- my phone memory is getting consumed and so i was forced to transfer a lot files from the phone to the sd card memory the night before.
- i charged my phone thru the usb port of my computer for about an hour or two.
Please help me remove the region lock again. The repair shop where i had it fixed is 7 hour drive from where i live. If possible i wanted to fix this by myself. Thank you guys. I hope you could help me.
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Hi Andrew
Thanks for using XDA Assist. I see you've posted in this section. There doesn't seem to be much activity in the galaxy prime forum. Try pointing your question to the Android Q&A,Help and Troubleshooting. Apologies for the late reply.

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So far so good ...
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Hello,
After several restarts, hard reseting the phone and enable-disable networking I still get the sim card removed from time to time ... I don't really know how to debug this... if there is anyone on this forum with the right experience in order to debug the system please write me and maybe we can find a solution.
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i get nothing from sims from various networks, it doesn't even register as having a sim in it...
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Kezzainc said:
Maybe have installed the wrong ROM. i9000 has many bases and radios. I had this problem installing 900mhz ROM on a 850mhz sim.
Good luck
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Hmm, ok this might be the issue, flashing the htc desire is so much simpler!!
Will try to find correct radios and stuff again...
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Even I am having the EXACT same issues right now. I also did the factory reset but that doesn't help!
pokopelo said:
I've got the same problem saptaru.
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If you happen to solve it, please, do not forget to post a comment.
After dialing #*1234# I can read:
PDA:
PHONE: Unknown
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I guess the IMEI cannot be recognized by the phone.
At least, I wrote it before rooting and flashing.
Any help will be highly apreciatted!
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Have u managed to find a fix? im havin this issue except my phone remembers the IMEI....
austin.s said:
well my sim card has been identified but i can't seem to register on the network.....thats as far as i got as a noob with my first android (xperia x8)......can someone help me from here on......
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Have the same problem here. Have you managed to find a solution?
Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone is still interested but I've found that putting the phone into flight mode and then rebooting seems to work, because when I then turn flight mode off it asks me for my pin code and service is restored. As long as the IMEI folder is still in the efs folder then things should be fine.
Hope this helps for anyone who is here or just stumbles across this.
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Galaxy Note2 GT-N7105 LTE ( t0lte ) - suddenly sim locked again ???

Note 2 LTE - suddenly sim locked again ???
hint: only read the Bold letters to make it short
ok, im allmost ready to give up this time...dont know how many of these threads i read allways to find a sullution to my problem, but it seams i finally have to ask for help myself.
Yeah, this is my first post, but ive been arround for a while, anyway this time, i need your active suggestions...
the History:
The phone: Samsung Galaxy Note2 GT-N7105 LTE ( t0lte ): initially locked to the Austrian Carrier A1, but i bought it allready unlocked.
Back then 2013 managed to flash and root via clockworkmod and wanam light rom, without triggering knox - thanks to you guys in here...chears again for that...
I hardened the system quite good and gave it to my mums - not touching it for years -or hardly, finally 2016 seamed to be time for an update. Didnt care much for the knox anymore and simply updated recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 and cyanogenmod 13.0 - 20161118-NIGHTLY ( recconed simplest Marshmallow upgrade ), installed the basics - thats it - left the phone with my mum again.
Got back few weeks later - i had realized my mum wasnt reachable on her phone anymore - figured she could still make calls herself, strangly she even would still be reachable when called via landline , but for some reason not from any cellular networks - so i went for a visit and thinking it might simply be a problem with her sim - i swaped her sim for mine - when turning the phone back on it now asked me for an SIM-unlock code...WTF!!! (and befor anybody asks my mums sim network was never A1 either)
- everything else seamed fin - imei and baseband still ok, sys stable as far as i could tell - only thing i noticed it had updated cm-13.0-20161122-NIGHTLY on its own...
Swaping SIMs didnt yeald any effet - so since that was the only thing that caught my eye i reverted back to 20161118-NIGHTLY and then back to my old wanamlight and finally even to original stock rom - problem persisted.
Searching i found 100 links like How to Unlock Your Samsung Galaxy S3 & Note 2 (No Rooting) , but no luck
Final resort, i even purchased an unlock code from UnLockBase but even that didnt work ...WTF!!!
So back to square one i found this Baseband Unknown and IMEI Null NOW WORKING | Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100, N7105
But even if my imei and my baseband was ok i thought perhaps the efs migh have some taken some kind a hit - so i searched eveywhere and found my old 2013 backups: PIT-File and EFS-partition (DDed via terminal) - so i backedup the existing efs and restored the old-EFS-Backup back again - then i even used Kies to revert everything to the last bit.....but no luck....
..also UnLockBase-Code still doesnt work - (btw. the also provide an unfreez code but ...all the same ) so i rooted again and tried GalaxSIM unlock says unsupported Model....whatever!???!!!:crying:
only thing left is perhaps: buy a cheap mainboard via aliexpress and perhaps take allong the imei from the old motherboard...
but i hate giving up!!!
What do you guys think? ...any suggestions
...sorry for having to read all that...tried to help a little there
update: made a second thread in the N7100 forum part link
mcaustria said:
Note 2 LTE - suddenly sim locked again ???
hint: only read the Bold letters to make it short
ok, im allmost ready to give up this time...dont know how many of these threads i read allways to find a sullution to my problem, but it seams i finally have to ask for help myself.
Yeah, this is my first post, but ive been arround for a while, anyway this time, i need your active suggestions...
the History:
The phone: Samsung Galaxy Note2 GT-N7105 LTE ( t0lte ): initially locked to the Austrian Carrier A1, but i bought it allready unlocked.
Back then 2013 managed to flash and root via clockworkmod and wanam light rom, without triggering knox - thanks to you guys in here...chears again for that...
I hardened the system quite good and gave it to my mums - not touching it for years -or hardly, finally 2016 seamed to be time for an update. Didnt care much for the knox anymore and simply updated recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 and cyanogenmod 13.0 - 20161118-NIGHTLY ( recconed simplest Marshmallow upgrade ), installed the basics - thats it - left the phone with my mum again.
Got back few weeks later - i had realized my mum wasnt reachable on her phone anymore - figured she could still make calls herself, strangly she even would still be reachable when called via landline , but for some reason not from any cellular networks - so i went for a visit and thinking it might simply be a problem with her sim - i swaped her sim for mine - when turning the phone back on it now asked me for an SIM-unlock code...WTF!!! (and befor anybody asks my mums sim network was never A1 either)
- everything else seamed fin - imei and baseband still ok, sys stable as far as i could tell - only thing i noticed it had updated cm-13.0-20161122-NIGHTLY on its own...
Swaping SIMs didnt yeald any effet - so since that was the only thing that caught my eye i reverted back to 20161118-NIGHTLY and then back to my old wanamlight and finally even to original stock rom - problem persisted.
Searching i found 100 links like How to Unlock Your Samsung Galaxy S3 & Note 2 (No Rooting) , but no luck
Final resort, i even purchased an unlock code from UnLockBase but even that didnt work ...WTF!!!
So back to square one i found this Baseband Unknown and IMEI Null NOW WORKING | Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100, N7105
But even if my imei and my baseband was ok i thought perhaps the efs migh have some taken some kind a hit - so i searched eveywhere and found my old 2013 backups: PIT-File and EFS-partition (DDed via terminal) - so i backedup the existing efs and restored the old-EFS-Backup back again - then i even used Kies to revert everything to the last bit.....but no luck....
..also UnLockBase-Code still doesnt work - (btw. the also provide an unfreez code but ...all the same ) so i rooted again and tried GalaxSIM unlock says unsupported Model....whatever!???!!!:crying:
only thing left is perhaps: buy a cheap mainboard via aliexpress and perhaps take allong the imei from the old motherboard...
but i hate giving up!!!
What do you guys think? ...any suggestions
...sorry for having to read all that...tried to help a little there
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You would probably have better luck asking this in your device specific forum as the members there are more familiar with your model and its particular issues, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in that forum hasn't already had this issue on this model.
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/help
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yeah, thanks Droidriven for the suggestion - should have thought of that myself in the first place - put link at the end of the original post if youre interested
mcaustria said:
yeah, thanks Droidriven for the suggestion - should have thought of that myself in the first place - put link at the end of the original post if youre interested
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I've turned it over and chewed on it for a minute but with the troubleshooting that you've already done I can't for the life of me think of other steps for you to try because you've done everything I would do already plus I'm not familiar with your exact model. I'll keep it on simmer and hopefully a butterfly will land on my shoulder and bring something to mind that might help you. You've pretty much covered all the bases already.
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edit: my imei is okay
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So, yesterday i was using my s7, suddenly, i got the custom binary blocked by frp, never had used or even flashed a phone before, searched for some tutorials and everything was up again, except by the carrier signal, the phone recognize that the sim is on, but cant register to the network.
Any possible solutions or i'm stuck with a high valued paper holder ?
edit: my imei is okay
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